Projects on the Move

Building robots is an expensive hobby but too interesting to leave to a small group of elite researchers. Peekabot saves you the investment in hardware and simulates a brave new robot world. Also, we’ll look at Gbrainy, a program to train your gray matter.

Utopia or reality? Science fiction or reality report? Plans are to have the current world soccer champions play against a team of robots in the year 2050, if the initiators of the annual world championship in robot soccer, the Robocup, have their way. The game is played by FIFA rules, and the Robocup Federation is quite certain that the mechanical players will win against the human team.

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At the end of April, Aldebaran Robotics let their 57cm-long humanoid Nao robots loose on a human audience of mostly open source developers. The robots possess 25 degrees of freedom, a child’s gaze, and anthropomorphic interactions.

Python inventor Guido van Rossum is known to have a good sense of humor and probably had a good laugh when he heard about the Guido van Robot project. If you are learning how to program, or would like to teach others, this software gives you a light-hearted introduction.